The Department for Work and Pensions and the Trades Union Congress has teamed up to launch a network of ‘Pensions Champions' to deliver information and advice to workplaces across the country.
Each ‘Pension Champion’ is a volunteer who will receive training on how to deliver non-regulated advice and information to workplace colleagues on pensions, and they will be able to use a new on-line 'pensions doctor' which helps individuals gather information about their own pensions situation, and can help suggest future action they can take to improve their retirement income. The TUC and the DWP say the ‘Pensions Champions’ will help employees to use the pensions doctor website to build up a pensions profile by asking them to provide information about their state pension contributions;...
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